Back Office Jobs with Work from Home Options

Back Office
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Back Office in permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH). Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Back Office over the 6 months to 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 359 376 429
Rank change year-on-year +17 +53 -63
Permanent jobs citing Back Office 248 305 539
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.73% 0.75% 0.77%
As % of the General category 1.19% 1.15% 1.21%
Number of salaries quoted 224 199 275
10th Percentile £36,500 £41,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £57,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% +7.69% -3.70%
75th Percentile £110,000 £94,375 £80,000
90th Percentile £138,375 £105,000 £98,750
UK median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.70% +3.85% -3.70%

All General Skills
Work from Home

Back Office is in the General Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for common skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 20,851 26,630 44,635
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 61.58% 65.90% 63.47%
Number of salaries quoted 15,097 17,776 24,517
10th Percentile £31,750 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £41,500 £46,570 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £83,484 £79,375
90th Percentile £95,000 £103,750 £95,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Back Office
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Back Office as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Back Office trend for jobs with a WFH option

Back Office
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Back Office.

Back Office salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Back Office
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Back Office over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Back Office salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Back Office
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 6 (2.42%) Umbraco
2 4 (1.61%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
2 4 (1.61%) CMS
3 2 (0.81%) IIS
3 2 (0.81%) WordPress
4 1 (0.40%) Apache Pulsar
4 1 (0.40%) Kentico
4 1 (0.40%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (0.40%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 8 (3.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (2.82%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.40%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (2.42%) Oracle General Ledger
1 6 (2.42%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 5 (2.02%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (1.61%) Endur
4 2 (0.81%) Magento
4 2 (0.81%) nopCommerce
4 2 (0.81%) Shopify
4 2 (0.81%) Unit4 Business World
5 1 (0.40%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.40%) Cognos Controller
5 1 (0.40%) Findur
5 1 (0.40%) IBM Planning Analytics
5 1 (0.40%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.40%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.40%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 87 (35.08%) Azure
2 65 (26.21%) AWS
3 43 (17.34%) GCP
4 16 (6.45%) Azure DevOps
5 14 (5.65%) Power Platform
6 8 (3.23%) Google Sheets
7 7 (2.82%) OCI
8 5 (2.02%) Dynamics 365
9 4 (1.61%) Google Workspace
10 2 (0.81%) Adobe Creative Cloud
10 2 (0.81%) npm
11 1 (0.40%) Amazon EC2
11 1 (0.40%) Amazon EKS
11 1 (0.40%) Azure Monitor
11 1 (0.40%) Entra ID
11 1 (0.40%) GitHub
11 1 (0.40%) IaaS
11 1 (0.40%) Microsoft 365
11 1 (0.40%) Power Automate
11 1 (0.40%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.61%) Wi-Fi
2 3 (1.21%) GPRS
3 1 (0.40%) 5G
3 1 (0.40%) ADSL
3 1 (0.40%) Broadband
3 1 (0.40%) DHCP
3 1 (0.40%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (9.27%) SQL Server
2 14 (5.65%) NoSQL
3 12 (4.84%) GIS
4 11 (4.44%) Data Lake
5 10 (4.03%) Power BI
6 9 (3.63%) Oracle Database
7 7 (2.82%) Geospatial Data
8 6 (2.42%) SAP BW
9 4 (1.61%) Data Warehouse
9 4 (1.61%) MongoDB
10 2 (0.81%) SQLPlus
11 1 (0.40%) MySQL
11 1 (0.40%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 11 (4.44%) JIRA
2 6 (2.42%) Git
3 2 (0.81%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.40%) Ant
4 1 (0.40%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.40%) Eclipse
4 1 (0.40%) IntelliJ
4 1 (0.40%) Maven
4 1 (0.40%) Mercurial
4 1 (0.40%) Octopus Deploy
4 1 (0.40%) SonarQube
4 1 (0.40%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (0.40%) Visual Studio Code
4 1 (0.40%) Visual Studio Team System
4 1 (0.40%) Vite
General
1 161 (64.92%) Finance
2 106 (42.74%) Front Office
3 68 (27.42%) Banking
4 66 (26.61%) Social Skills
5 25 (10.08%) Retail
6 16 (6.45%) Analytical Skills
7 11 (4.44%) Billing
7 11 (4.44%) Telecoms
8 10 (4.03%) Police
9 8 (3.23%) Presentation Skills
10 7 (2.82%) Organisational Skills
11 6 (2.42%) General Ledger
11 6 (2.42%) Health Technology
12 4 (1.61%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (1.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 3 (1.21%) Legal
13 3 (1.21%) Marketing
14 2 (0.81%) Advertising
14 2 (0.81%) Public Sector
15 1 (0.40%) Agriculture
Job Titles
1 87 (35.08%) Developer
2 80 (32.26%) Senior
3 55 (22.18%) Analyst
4 53 (21.37%) Senior Developer
5 46 (18.55%) .NET Developer
5 46 (18.55%) Software Engineer
6 44 (17.74%) Developer/Software Engineer
6 44 (17.74%) Senior Software Developer
6 44 (17.74%) Senior Software Engineer
7 43 (17.34%) Senior .NET Developer
8 42 (16.94%) .NET Software Developer
8 42 (16.94%) .NET Software Engineer
8 42 (16.94%) Senior .NET Software Developer
8 42 (16.94%) Senior .NET Software Engineer
9 29 (11.69%) Financial Analyst
10 27 (10.89%) Banking Analyst
10 27 (10.89%) SQL Analyst
10 27 (10.89%) Technical Analyst
11 22 (8.87%) Senior Technical Engineer
11 22 (8.87%) Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (27.42%) .NET
2 50 (20.16%) AngularJS
3 49 (19.76%) React
4 43 (17.34%) Redux
5 42 (16.94%) Vue
6 32 (12.90%) ASP.NET
7 29 (11.69%) .NET Core
8 27 (10.89%) ASP.NET Core
9 18 (7.26%) CSS
10 12 (4.84%) FIX Protocol
10 12 (4.84%) Web Services
11 10 (4.03%) HTML
11 10 (4.03%) Pandas
12 6 (2.42%) .NET Framework
13 5 (2.02%) ASP.NET MVC
14 4 (1.61%) jQuery
14 4 (1.61%) REST
15 3 (1.21%) RESTful
16 2 (0.81%) ASP.NET Web API
16 2 (0.81%) KnockoutJS
Miscellaneous
1 100 (40.32%) Derivative
2 98 (39.52%) Hedge funds
3 44 (17.74%) Fixed Income
4 43 (17.34%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 42 (16.94%) Equities
6 13 (5.24%) Management Information System
7 11 (4.44%) Enterprise Software
7 11 (4.44%) Legacy Systems
7 11 (4.44%) Onboarding
8 6 (2.42%) Reinsurance
9 5 (2.02%) Cloud Native
10 4 (1.61%) Replication
11 3 (1.21%) Blog
11 3 (1.21%) IoT
11 3 (1.21%) Self-Motivation
12 2 (0.81%) Algorithms
12 2 (0.81%) Data Protection Act
12 2 (0.81%) Data Structures
12 2 (0.81%) Product Ownership
12 2 (0.81%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 15 (6.05%) Windows
2 12 (4.84%) Linux
3 11 (4.44%) Unix
4 2 (0.81%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.40%) Android
5 1 (0.40%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.40%) Solaris
5 1 (0.40%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.40%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.40%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (38.71%) Asset Management
2 95 (38.31%) Investment Management
3 69 (27.82%) Agile
4 59 (23.79%) Mentoring
4 59 (23.79%) Software Engineering
5 31 (12.50%) CRM
6 28 (11.29%) Problem-Solving
7 27 (10.89%) DevOps
7 27 (10.89%) Project Delivery
8 24 (9.68%) Data Analysis
8 24 (9.68%) ERP
9 21 (8.47%) Roadmaps
10 19 (7.66%) Computer Science
11 18 (7.26%) Line Management
12 17 (6.85%) Change Management
12 17 (6.85%) Migration
12 17 (6.85%) Test Automation
13 15 (6.05%) CI/CD
13 15 (6.05%) Data Management
14 13 (5.24%) Customer Service
Programming Languages
1 144 (58.06%) SQL
2 124 (50.00%) C#
3 107 (43.15%) Python
4 55 (22.18%) JavaScript
5 47 (18.95%) TypeScript
6 20 (8.06%) T-SQL
7 13 (5.24%) Java
7 13 (5.24%) PowerShell
8 11 (4.44%) Kotlin
9 4 (1.61%) VB.NET
10 1 (0.40%) Bash
10 1 (0.40%) Swift
Qualifications
1 43 (17.34%) Degree
2 16 (6.45%) Computer Science Degree
3 14 (5.65%) Master's Degree
4 10 (4.03%) DBS Check
5 8 (3.23%) CISSP
5 8 (3.23%) PMI Certification
5 8 (3.23%) PMP
6 7 (2.82%) CISM
7 6 (2.42%) Oracle Certification
8 2 (0.81%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.81%) Numerate Degree
9 1 (0.40%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.40%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.40%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.40%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.40%) MCSE
9 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Certified Architect
9 1 (0.40%) SC Cleared
9 1 (0.40%) Security Cleared
9 1 (0.40%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (7.26%) Data Quality
2 14 (5.65%) QA
3 9 (3.63%) PMO
4 6 (2.42%) GAAP
4 6 (2.42%) IFRS
5 2 (0.81%) EMIR
5 2 (0.81%) MiFID
5 2 (0.81%) SLA
6 1 (0.40%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 1 (0.40%) ITGC
6 1 (0.40%) NIST
System Software
1 15 (6.05%) Docker
2 4 (1.61%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.81%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.40%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.40%) Firmware
4 1 (0.40%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.40%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 16 (6.45%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.40%) Ansible
2 1 (0.40%) Hadoop YARN
2 1 (0.40%) SCOM
2 1 (0.40%) SCOrch
2 1 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (0.40%) Terraform
2 1 (0.40%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 32 (12.90%) Microsoft
2 24 (9.68%) Oracle
3 22 (8.87%) SAP
4 11 (4.44%) Google
5 9 (3.63%) IBM
6 8 (3.23%) Algorithmics
6 8 (3.23%) ION Trading
7 6 (2.42%) PeopleSoft
7 6 (2.42%) Salesforce
8 4 (1.61%) OpenLink
9 3 (1.21%) Iron Mountain
10 2 (0.81%) Adobe
10 2 (0.81%) Blue Prism
10 2 (0.81%) Calypso
10 2 (0.81%) ServiceNow
10 2 (0.81%) UiPath
10 2 (0.81%) VMware
10 2 (0.81%) WooCommerce
11 1 (0.40%) Charles River
11 1 (0.40%) Murex